NOUN | attribute | maleness, masculinity | the properties characteristic of the male sex |
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Meaning | The properties characteristic of the male sex. | |
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Synonym | masculinity | |
Narrower | virility | The masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation |
Broader | sex, gender, sexuality | The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
Opposite | femaleness, feminineness | The properties characteristic of the female sex |
Spanish | masculinidad | |
Catalan | masculinitat | |
Adjectives | male | being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation |
male | for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | |
male | characteristic of a man |
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